Mark Maynard | John Edwards

Weiner, acknowledging mistakes, gushes apologetically

By Mark | June 6, 2011

I had higher hopes for my Weiner. A few days ago, when the penis-posting rumors first started flying about Anthony Weiner – one of my favorite Congressmen – I was tempted to post something here about how he’d been set up by scumbag, bottom-feeding Republican infotainment purveyor Andrew Breitbart. That was, for many of us […]

Posted in Politics, sex, Uncategorized | Also tagged Andrew Breitbart, Anthony Weiner, Clarence Thomas, Congress, Facebook, House Committee on Energy and Commerce, House Democrats, James O'Keefe, Liberty Central Inc., Lisa Weiss, men who email photos of their penises, Obamacare, Paul Revere, self-destructive urges, sexting, Twitter, Virginia Thomas | 29 Comments

Knobby sighting

By Mark | March 24, 2011

As I feel obligated to share news of every bigfoot sighting here on the site, here’s the most recent one. This film, from what we’re told, was shot by a fellow named Thomas Byers two days ago in North Carolina. I think it’s pretty clearly fake, but what do I know. After all, I believed […]

Posted in Other, Uncategorized | Also tagged bigfoot, blurry monster video, Carolyn Wright, Fortean, Knobby, ninja assassin, North Carolina, Siberia, Thomas Byers, yeti, yeti studies | 10 Comments

John Edwards picking up college girls

By Mark | October 17, 2010

One of my biggest regrets, at least politically speaking, is that I invested as much as I did in the John Edwards campaign. It sounds incredibly naive in retrospect, I know, but I really believed that he was sincerely running because he wanted to stand up for regular Americans, and bring morality and integrity back […]

Posted in Mark's Life, Politics | Also tagged Center on Poverty Work and Opportunity, Eric Lagergren, let down by my leaders, middle class, pictures of men trying to get laid, political endorsements, politicians caught on tape, poverty, Presidential politics, regrets, RFK, Rielle Hunter, Robert Kennedy, UNC, University of North Carolina | 63 Comments

It’s like the French Revolution, but in reverse

By Mark | January 31, 2010

Instead of following my heart tonight and writing about the colossally fucked-up narcissist John Edwards, I’ve decided to share a link to a BBC piece about why we Americans so often vote against our own best interests. (I love watching the relatively level-headed Brits trying to understand the Tea Partification of their former colonies.) The […]

Posted in Observations, Politics | Also tagged anti-intellectualism, authenticity, BBC, Davide Runciman, death panels, defunding public schools, Economics, elitism, fake sincerity, French Revolution, French Revolution in reverse, How Conservatives Won the Heart of America, public education, school vouchers, speaking from the gut, stupid Americans, Tea Partyfication, the concentration of wealth, Thomas Frank, voting against your own interests, What's the Matter with Kansas? | 18 Comments

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